A discomfiting representation of the sexualization of children, possibly registering either sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, or society’s fears about these crimes. Also, where the non-human and the human come to occupy the same unsettling place.

Mix-and-Match Man: Happened a lot more in the early days of genetic engineering – and still sometimes happens when the spouses in a multiple marriage of one schema or another wish to have a child that’s descended from all of them – but these days, if you want your child to have some specific traits, you just order those sequences out of the Colonial Genetics, Biogenesis, FleshTech, etc., catalog.